For me, I suppose it would be this: Hunger makes food taste good.
2007-08-18 13:10:39 · 26 answers · asked by widerworldweb 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Cogito ergo sum.
translation: "I think, therefore I am"
-Descartes
2007-08-18 13:21:46 · answer #1 · answered by C-Man 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Give a lazy person a hard job to do and he will find an easy way to do it. It works. My parents for years took as long as 45 minutes to open the locked car; it took me 5 seconds to do it. I laughed my *** off.
Although I don't think it that profound
Also Dead men tell no tales.
2007-08-18 20:18:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the more I drink the prettier the women get: actually, that is not really it, the most profound statement I know of, was made in the closing comments of a very famous speech by Patrick Henry when he said "..... but as for me,GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH"
2007-08-19 23:46:26 · answer #3 · answered by al b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. "
~Douglas Adams.
Along with quite a few more of his. And...
"If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill.
2007-08-18 22:18:05 · answer #4 · answered by Poodleskirts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few I like:
"The Sun is no less magnificiant for shining on a pile of sh*t"!
"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day, but teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime"!!
Regarding Divorce:
"I've been halved, but I won't be quartered" (Never re-marry)
"Getting back with your ex is like having your appendix put back in" !!!
2007-08-18 22:12:34 · answer #5 · answered by sunrayman123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We dance round in a ring and suppose
But the secret sits in the middle and knows.
R Frost
2007-08-18 21:59:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For me, the most insightful, frightening and hopeful remark is by the Roman poet Terrence:
"Because I am human, nothing human is alien to me."
2007-08-18 20:40:54 · answer #7 · answered by johnslat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Things change."
Movie title that made a profound impression on me in my early teens. Through many moves and major life events, this one stuck behind me. I think it's tattooed on my brain somewhere.
2007-08-18 21:42:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't say anything bad about a person until you've walked a mile in their shoes. That way, you're a mile down the road and have their shoes.
2007-08-18 20:27:16 · answer #9 · answered by Vulcan_guy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some I like and live by, Don't go throught life with sweaty palms, Don't sweat the small stuff, Don't worry about things you can't change, worry about what you can change
2007-08-18 20:20:00 · answer #10 · answered by cjid84 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Accept the fact that the achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness—not pain or mindless self-indulgence—is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values." - Ayn Rand
2007-08-18 21:00:00 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋